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Jamaica: Mento Master Missed

Categories: Caribbean, Jamaica, Arts & Culture, History, Indigenous, Music

Repeating Islands [1] remembers the life and career of Jamaica's Mento master, Theodore “T” Miller: “Mento is a style of Jamaican folk music that draws heavily on musical traditions brought to the island by African slaves…his loss, as the Gleaner recently reported, ‘represents a great loss to Jamaica’s cultural heritage’.”